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Working notes, not thought leadership.
Research from the Governance Research Lab and notes from the coop. Long, sourced, and occasionally about the things that went wrong.
Greffon: an open-source, self-hosted deployment platformDeploy containerized apps on infrastructure you own. A technical tour of Greffon — its control plane, its workers, its built-in certificate authority — and why the middle ground between managed PaaS and Kubernetes matters.Crypto (Anti-)Commons? Controversies Surrounding the Status of Bitcoin and Public Blockchains as Digital Commons—Part 1Can Bitcoin and public blockchains be called digital commons? Part 1 maps the controversy and asks which idea of the commons the question invokes.Cooperative & Web3 Glossary (V.0.1)A living glossary translating between cooperative and Web3 vocabularies — for coops meeting the DAO, and Web3 communities meeting the SCOP."Insight Report" Series: External Interview #1 — Phil H.First of an interview series on distributed governance — opening with a recording that failed, and what that reveals about fieldwork infrastructure.Presentation — Maël Rolland x Samouraï CoopMaël Rolland, socio-economist and EHESS doctor, joins Samouraï Coop as independent researcher in residence at the Governance Research Lab.
Samouraï Governance Research Lab: A New Milestone for the CooperativeSamouraï Coop opens a research lab on cooperative and distributed governance — how eight years of building led here, and what it sets out to document.
Samouraï Governance Research Lab: A New Milestone for the CooperativeSamouraï Coop opens a research lab on cooperative and distributed governance — how eight years of building led here, and what it sets out to document.Older posts rescued from the previous site keep their original publication dates and link back to their source.